Traveling through the troubled times of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Speaking of Wagang's attack last time, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Shan Xiongxin were captured by Wang Shichong. Li Mi responded negatively, and the Wagang brothers turned to Xu Maogong who was far away in Chang'an City.

Li Yuan is thirsty for talents, and Wang Shichong's occupation of Jiangdu is also a big threat to himself.Therefore, he immediately decided to send troops to attack Wang Shichong, trying to rescue Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and others.

Li Shimin was ordered in danger, and the Pingxi army who had just returned to Chang'an City had no time to recuperate, and immediately went to Wagang without stopping, including the Luo family brothers.

When the army reached the border between Henan and Shanxi, it was still dark and never bright.Luo Cheng suddenly reined in the reins and signaled everyone to stop first.

Li Shimin stepped forward and said, "What's the matter? General Luo."

Luo Cheng glanced around. The fog ahead was thick and overgrown with weeds. He couldn't see the trail ahead at all. He frowned slightly: "The location of this forest is especially suitable for ambush."

Li Shimin's complexion was complete, and his face was uncertain: "No way, in order to save time, we chose the forest path instead of the official road. No one should know that we will take this path."

"Maybe I'm worrying too much." Luo Cheng nodded, as if agreeing with Li Shimin's statement, but his heart was still haunted by uneasiness.Li Shimin also noticed it, and said, "General Luo, do you see something wrong? Why don't you send someone to the front to investigate first?"

Liu Hongji, the general next to Li Shimin, said: "King Qin, the heavy rain in the past two days has delayed us on the road for several days, and because of this, we chose to take the trail, but if we continue to delay, I'm afraid it will delay saving people."

Luo Cheng frowned, raised his head, and said with a little apology: "King Qin, what General Liu said is correct, I didn't see anything, maybe I'm too tired after traveling for days, and I'm a little suspicious, it's more important to save people. Brother, Fourth Brother Cheng and the others are in Wang Shichong's hands for one more day, and the risk will be higher. The reason why Wang Shichong doesn't kill his cousin and them now may be to persuade them to surrender, but according to their temperament, since they have already talked with Xu Jun and the others If an agreement is reached, they will belong to the Tang Dynasty, so they will definitely not agree to Wang Shichong's conditions. No one knows whether Wang Shichong will become angry and kill his cousin and the others one day."

Luo Song nodded, looked at Li Shimin and said, "Since that's the case, King Qin, let's go on our way."

Li Shimin nodded, and the army continued to move forward.

After walking for a few more miles, Luo Cheng's brows furrowed more and more as he walked in. Luo Song suddenly saw his brother's solemn expression, and lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?"

Luo Cheng glanced at him and said, "Brother, there seems to be some movement ahead."

When Luo Song heard this, his heart skipped a beat. Others said he might not believe it, but when Luo Cheng told him seriously, he was probably in agreement. His younger brother has always been sensitive, and because of this, he was still in Beiping Mansion. At that time, he fought against the Turks, repeatedly saw through the Turks' ambush, and returned with a big victory.

It was the second time that he felt something was wrong along the way.

Luo Song didn't dare to slack off at all, and said, "Let's go and report to King Qin."

The generals in the Tang army were all silent when they heard the words. Luo Song knew that it would be very difficult for everyone to agree with Luo Cheng's intuition. It was very likely that the schedule would be delayed, but nothing happened. Therefore, he Waiting, waiting for His Royal Highness King Qin to make a decision.

Li Shimin looked at Luo Cheng, who was frowning and lost in thought, and finally made a final decision: "Let's do it, General Liu, please take a small army to go ahead to explore the way. The army listens to my orders and rests where it is."

Liu Hongji took the order and set off first with his people. Soon after, Li Shimin took the lead and led his people around to observe the terrain, leaving the army standing still.

Liu Hongji and Li Shimin led the army away for about an incense stick of time, when Luo Cheng suddenly walked towards a flat ground, half squatted down close to the ground, put his ears on the ground, listened quietly for a moment, then stood up suddenly, and walked straight to his white dragon horse Go, walked faster and faster, and finally trotted forward, and shouted as he ran: "The Luo family army obeys the order, all gather, follow me."

"Cheng'er!" Luo Song stepped forward to stop him, "What's going on?"

"Brother, General Liu may have been ambushed." Luo Cheng said anxiously.

"Wait, I'll send someone to find His Royal Highness King Qin first."

"It's too late. I don't know what's going on ahead. I don't know how many soldiers and horses are in ambush. I'll take people to rescue General Liu and explore the way. You go and inform His Royal Highness King Qin that we will meet up ahead."

"Okay, then you should be careful all the way, and don't try to be brave in everything."

As soon as Luo Song let go, Luo Cheng had already saved people like a fire, and rushed out immediately. Luo Song immediately sent someone to find King Qin.

The sound of fighting at the other end faded away, and a tall and strong man held a big knife in one hand and held it horizontally in front of him, laughing loudly: "General Wang, Wang Shichong is really right, a big fish has really been caught."

The person known as General Wang was Wang Fubao, the right-hand man of Dou Jiande, the leader of the peasant rebel army who was supposed to be active in Hebei and Shandong.

To talk about how Wang Fubao, the right-hand man of Xia Wang Dou Jiande, appeared here, we have to start with Wang Shichong's decision to conquer Wagang.

Since the Eighteenth Road Anti-king in Yangzhou City mistakenly fell into Yang Guang's treacherous scheme, he suffered heavy casualties and suffered serious damage to his vitality.Li Yuan ascended the throne in Chang'an and proclaimed himself emperor. He had numerous advisers and generals under his command, and even the brave father, son and brother of the Luo family and Li Yuanba, who was born with supernatural power, helped him out.Some rebels who felt that there was nothing to do came to join Li Tang one after another, including Luo Cheng's acquaintances, Wu Yunzhao, Zhu Can, Xiong Kuohai and others.

At this time, news came that Li Tang had defeated Xue Ju and his son in Xidi.

At this time, the ambitious Wang Shichong panicked. Wang Shichong settled down and thought that he could not be at ease in the three-acre land in Dongdu. He beats.

If you want to expand your military strength and expand your territory, you must fight. Who do you want to fight?Naturally, pick the soft persimmons first.So the turbulent Wagang became Wang Shichong's target, but although Wagang was in turmoil in the court, the camels were bigger than horses. , Xie Yingdeng, there are countless generals who are famous and not.

Wang Shichong still had some calculations, since he couldn't beat him, he bought himself a double insurance.Without turning his head, he drew allies for himself.Dou Jiande of Hebei is the best and most favorable choice.One, Dou Jiande's power is not small, the two of them work together, it is no problem to deal with Wagang; two, who is Dou Jiande?Dou Jiande and his family have been farming for generations. To put it bluntly, they are ignorant farmers. What tactics and strategies does he know?Compared with him, Wang Shichong felt much better about himself. He used to be an imperial court official. He was familiar with classics and history since he was a child, and he was proficient in the art of war.

So, don't look at Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande as brothers and sisters on the surface, Wang Shichong actually looks down on Dou Jiande from the bottom of his heart.

Wang Shichong spent a lot of thought on wooing Dou Jiande, at least in the letter he was sincere and asked for advice humbly. He described Li Tang's prosperity as miraculous and Wagang as unbelievable, just to make Dou Jiande feel a sense of crisis and to communicate with him. Attack Wagang together.

After Dou Jiande weighed the pros and cons, he was really persuaded by Wang Shichong's eloquent tongue. No, he led an army to Henan to help.

Wang Shichong guessed that he didn't expect that Li Mi would be so self-willed that he thought he was invincible, and "sent" the three generals into his camp for nothing, so Dou Jiande's army used as an ambush would not be needed, and he was busy persuading him at the moment Qin Qiong and others surrendered, how could they have time to notify Dou Jiande's army.

No, Dou Jiande's army has been bitten by mosquitoes for two days in the forest, and they are impatient, wondering why there is no news from you, Wang Shichong?I don't see Li Mi sending troops to save people, but he hasn't saved people. Could it be that we have been nesting in this broken forest and feeding mosquitoes?

On this day, Dou Jiande's general Wang Fubao was being bitten by mosquitoes and was irritated. He had already cursed from Li Mi to Wang Shichong when he heard the sound of horseshoes approaching.

When the men and horses approached, Wang Fubao gave an order, and the crowd rushed forward and surrounded them all at once. Before Liu Hongji and the others did anything, they were outflanked. After a desperate fight, they were still surrounded. captured.

When Wang Fubao saw that he had captured a general alive, he cheerfully stepped forward and patted Liu Hongji's shoulder, who was bound by five flowers, and said, "What's the matter? Let us wait for two days, and finally caught a living one. Hey, are you Wagang?" A general? It’s so bad.”

Liu Hongji was so angry that his teeth were itching because of his bad words, and then he heard that he mistakenly believed that he was a general of Wagang, so he immediately shouted: "I am Liu Hongji, a general of Tang Dynasty!"

Wang Fubao was taken aback, then smiled and said: "Datang? Are you kidding me? The general of the Li family is not staying in Chang'an City. What are you doing here in Henan? You can't find a good reason for lying. You don't have to hide it from me, you It's Wagang's general, planning to attack Wang Shichong's barracks, isn't he?"

Seeing that these two idiots didn't listen to him at all, Liu Hongji became very angry.

"Come on, hurry up and take them down. I think there is only such a small group of people. They should be scouts. Let's continue to ambush. When the army passes by, we will catch a big fish."

The crowd cheered.

Luo Cheng was not in a hurry to hurry, instead he looked around seriously, turned around and called Yan Lang, whispered a few words in his ear, Yan Lang's eyes lit up, and he ordered his subordinates to hurry up.

It was a scorching summer day, and even though it was not bright, it was still hot.The forest was overgrown with weeds, almost all of which were as tall as a person, and in addition to the heavy fog in the early morning, it was impossible to distinguish things.It is precisely because of this that it is suitable to cover up and lay an ambush.

But such an environment is more suitable for doing another thing——

"General, what's going on? I heard the sound of horseshoes just now, why did the sound disappear now?"

Wang Fubao lightly knocked on the opponent's head, lowered his voice and said, "What's the noise? Watch out for an ambush!"

The subordinates pursed their mouths and fell silent immediately.

Wang Fubao and others waited patiently for a while, but now they heard the sound of messy footsteps again, but after a while there was no sound again, and Wang Fubao couldn't figure out what the other party was doing, so he murmured to himself: "It's really strange!" It's strange, no one came in for a long time."

The subordinates timidly approached and said, "General, do you smell any smoke?"

Wang Fubao was racking his brains to figure out why the other party hadn't come in yet, when he heard someone talking, he pushed that person's head away irritably: "What is the smell of smoke? Isn't it just that the fog is thicker, get out of here , Squat patiently for me!"

The subordinates had no choice but to continue to squat obediently.

After a while: "General, something is wrong, the smell of smoke is getting stronger..."

"What are you farting, just squat down honestly! Cough cough..." Wang Fubao coughed violently just after he finished speaking, "Why are you so choking! Cough..."

"General, someone set fire!" The subordinates were quick-sighted and saw a few clusters of flames not far ahead. Thinking of the trees all over the forest, coupled with the hot weather, they were frightened into a cold sweat, and quickly jumped up and said, "Ah, It's on fire, it's on fire! Everyone run for their lives."

"Don't make a mess! Don't make a mess!" When Wang Fubao wanted to stop it, it was too late.

But this kind of scene is not something that Wang Fubao can suppress with just a few words. Before him, the catastrophe of Yangzhou City burning and rebelling against the king was shining brightly in front of him.In times of crisis, life-saving is the most important thing. Everyone stood up one after another, dropped their weapons, and rushed to call for help. Wang Fubao was in a hurry, but no matter how anxious he was, it didn't work at all. The army's morale was confused. The army was like headless chicken Rampage.

Suddenly, two lines of troops rushed out from both sides, surrounded the people as if they were descended from the sky, holding sharp weapons, all of them were brave, so frightened that Wang Fubao's army immediately raised their hands high.

The two teams parted ways, one person and one horse flashed out from the middle, the white horse and silver helmet was Luo Cheng.

"Extinguish it. It's not good to play with fire in the woods. If it is accidentally ignited, a large forest will be burned. Not only them, but we can't escape."

After Luo Chengyu finished, Yan Lang immediately ordered someone to put out the torch in his hand.Several haystacks lit in the clearing were also watered and extinguished.

When Wang Fubao saw this, he realized that he had been fooled by the other party, but there was no possibility of struggling at the moment.

Yan Lang tied him up, and after searching for nothing, he had to report back: "General, I didn't see General Li and the others."

Luo Changchang handed over the spear, and the sharp blade pointed directly at Wang Fubao's throat: "Who are you? Where did my Great Tang general let you go?"

When Wang Fubao heard about Datang, he was dumbfounded: "Aren't you from Wagang?" In his heart, he scolded Wang Shichong's [-] generations of ancestors. Damn Wang Shichong, he knew that this person was as cunning as a fox, and it would be no good to find King Xia At that time, he also urged King Xia not to follow blindly, but King Xia was still moved by Wang Shichong, saying that he would fight Wagang together and share the benefits together. Who ever wanted to attract the Tang army who was in the limelight? He is digging a hole, let them jump!Wang Fubao was very regretful at the moment.

Luo Yong grabbed him by the collar and dragged him towards him: "Why are you pretending to be crazy, why are you acting stupid, you're here to ambush us, don't you know that we belong to Datang?"

Wang Fubao stared wide-eyed, speechless, they really didn't know how Datang's army would appear here, and they agreed to ambush Li Mi here.

Wang Fubao's subordinates honestly took Luo Yong to the pit behind the hillside, where Liu Hongji and others were being tied up with rags stuffed in their mouths.

If Wang Fubao didn't say anything, there would naturally be someone who could speak. No, after Luo Yong's rogue behavior, someone would immediately give an honest account, saying everything that could be said and could not be said.For example, they were the army of King Dou Jiande of Xia. Before Wang Shichong attacked Wagang, he sent a letter to form an alliance with King Xia. The two advanced and retreated together and captured Wagang in one fell swoop.They have been in ambush here for several days, just to ambush Li Mi's army. They are here to ambush, and there are more than [-] troops stationed in the rear, waiting for news. Balabala said a lot... Wang Fubao wanted to die. have.

Luo Cheng listened carefully, and Luo Yong couldn't help asking: "General, what are you thinking?"

Luo Cheng looked around the surrounding foggy environment, his eyes fell on the armor worn by Dou Jiande's soldiers, he raised his eyebrows, and said, "I probably thought of a way to save my cousin and the others."